Artists

Cognitive scientist Mark Changizi and coworkers demonstrated that the distribution of geometric patterns that appear in a landscape matches that of patterns in the letters of all languages (Changizi et al., 2006). The results of their research show that the shapes of the letters may have converged and evolved to adapt to the human's aquired ability to observe nature.
In this work, 36 geometric patterns presented in the research are extracted from framed landscape images, etc., using an algorithm developed by ourselves, and the text that matches the patterns is identified from the vast amount of Japanese texts existing on the Internet. The scenes that emerge from this process evoke a feeling that all the words we have said, spelled and read have previously been woven into the scenes we see on a daily basis as possibilities.
By connecting “looking around oneself” and “language” that constitute the foundation of our perception of the world, this work shakes up our reality that is here and now.

GengoRaw(ISHIBASHI Tomoya＋NIIKURA Kento)

2018

created by ISHIBASHI Tomoya (artist) and NIIKULA Kento (engineer)

ISHIBASHI Tomoya

1990

Born in Saitama Prefecture

Completed graduate program, Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Waseda University

NIIKURA Kento

1989

Born in Tokyo

Completed graduate program, Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Awards received

2019

Grand Prix, WIRED CREATIVE HACK AWARD (Japan)

2021

Jury's recommendation, art category, the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival (organized by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan)

2022

Prizewinner, The 25th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art (Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan)

Main exhibition

2021

Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition 2021: Hard Problem of Aesthetic Consciousness, Informal Nakagawamura Museum and other venues (Nagano Prefecture)

2021

Solo exhibition "Kotobanokikai," TOKAS hongo (Tokyo)

2022

Roppongi Art Night, Roppongi Ignoppor (Tokyo)